elysia catchall

[hextech]

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[florescences]

Even if she does... you're the one who said we shouldn't force it, right?

[ why is he going back ]

You could be more familiar.

[hextech]

It would only be an invitation. [JUST TELLING HIM HE COULD BE MORE FAMILIAR. His brows furrow. Something under the neutrality stirs slightly, but doesn't rise.] Why? I won't force friendship onto her if she doesn't want it. I'm familiar enough with the three of them.

[florescences]

[ she got him to turn around so fast. ]

Sure. The invitation might be better coming from you since you're more familiar.

Like you said, it's only an invitation. She is free to deny.

[hextech]

[SHE DID. HE WAS JUST SO OFFENDED ON MARY'S BEHALF. She is like his weird little Zaunite cousin.] We haven't determined anything else about this, and she will ask about information. Date, time, book selection... She probably won't read anything... [a pause] ...a normie would.

[florescences]

[ her tactics worked faster than expected. she smiles and has to giggle when he says normie. ]

Who taught you normie? We can pick a time in two weeks, here, a Tuesday afternoon. If she likes science fiction or dark romanticism.... why don't we go with what you were looking for?

[ she pulls out a copy of Frankenstein from the shelf. ]

Although I don't know if she'd be interested in something she already knows.

[hextech]

Mary. [Of course Mary taught him how to dunk on the normies.] No, absolutely not. [In the same silly accented way he says this to Mel about weaponry.] She has a rivalry with Mary Shelley, the author. She enjoys writing, and cello, and taxidermy.

[florescences]

A rivalry?

[ it's a good thing i've committed to mary shelley not existing in elysia's timeline. ]

But she recommended the author to you... Was it so you could compare?

[hextech]

It was only a suggestion. She thought it was something I would be interested in. [Science fiction.......] It's why I'm looking for it now.

[florescences]

[ she offers him frankenstein. there's one of them. he's going to have to find edgar allen poe for himse.f ]

Is science one of your interests? Profession?

[hextech]

I was a student at the Academy when I was younger, and I enjoyed inventing. After I met Jayce, science became our profession, yes. [Science fiction....]

[florescences]

Oh...

[ she's thinking about one of her friends from home, and then he says a name. ]

Jayce?

[hextech]

My Hextech partner, Jayce. The mixture of science and magic was his dream initially. [Their gay dream.]

[florescences]

Did you two achieve it?

[ tell her more about how gay you are. ]

[hextech]

[WHY!!!] Yes. We created Hextech and changed Piltover's way of life in some areas. We wanted to bring Hextech to the people, to help others, but kept running into bureaucratic roadblocks. And then I became... this. And I was able to bring our dream to the people as we always wanted.

[florescences]

This? Why do you describe yourself that way? Could you tell me more about how your dream was realized? What does it look like? The world you envisioned.

[ she is so curious. less about the gayness but more about viktor himself. ]

[hextech]

I am nothing like I once was when I was a human man. [Now irrevocably altered. His hand stretches out, offering the bizarre metal and purple flesh palm face-up to her.] I can show you.

[florescences]

[ if he doesn't pull away, elysia will reach out to gently touch his hand, as if to test how the bizarre metal and purple flesh feels like, before holding it. ]

I'd love to see what your dream looks like.

[ his paradise(?). ]

[hextech]

[He takes her hand in his, grip gentle for how chilly and strangely humming the skin is. And he shows her their dream by pulling her into it like a memory. The dream taken root, too. Some of the commune. Ignore the hivemind......]

[florescences]

[ she does not ignore the hivemind unless he doesn't show her the hivemind. this is a cult, but it's a cult with good intentions, and it does look beautiful.

she can see how much viktor is trying to do good. ]

It's beautiful, Viktor. What you want to do is beautiful, but is it because you were trying too much that you came here?

[hextech]

[She can see the implications.......... (but just ignore that). It's a cult!!! It's fine.] My former partner is who killed me. He called our dream a curse. But I do not know the extent of why.

[florescences]

Jayce did?

[ she's thinking it over. ]

He didn't explain why he said that?

[hextech]

Yes. [Sometimes your partner kills you...] No. He did not speak to me when he came to do it either.

[florescences]

[ she hums. ]

What was your last conversation with him about?

[hextech]

[Hmm. He takes her hand again into his own. He will show her instead. Well. She does not get to see the last part, but she can feel it. The sudden snap of someone's entire existence being ripped out of a collective.]

[florescences]

[ that was a bit violent. to think partners split like this.... she can see a divorce when she sees one... where viktor seems to want to reconcile after leaving(?). the details are fuzzy to her, but that was the implication she got from some of their words.

finally, she can see the hivemind in full. that does put a spin on perspective. it takes her a moment. ]

It looks like your thoughts on how Hextech should be used diverged. For something that combines both magic and science... I assume your government wanted to use it for a variety of things, right?

[ bureaucratic roadblocks. ]